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        <h1>
            <span style="font-family: Verdana">Step by Step Guide for </span>
        <a href="http://www.trackvision.net">
            <span style="font-family: Verdana">TrackVision</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana">
                and the </span><a href="http://www.qstarz.com/Products/GPS%20Products/BT-Q1000.html">
                    <span style="font-family: Verdana">QStarz BT-Q1000</span></a></h1>
        <span style="font-family: Verdana">
            by Mario Sobral
        <br />
            <br />
        <br />
        <br />
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        <h2>
            <span style="font-family: Verdana">WHAT</span></h2>
        <br />
        <span style="font-family: Verdana">
        The BT-Q1000 is a GPS datalogger which can be set at 5Hz (5 positions processed
        per second), instead of the usual 1Hz for most consumer level GPS receivers/loggers,
        due to its MTK 1.94 chipset.<br />
        TrackVision is a software which allows you to overlay data on top of video, mainly
        for racing and track driving footage analysis purpose.<br />
        <br />
        So, the purpose of this help guide is to have you enjoy the most of your video capture
        of driving/riding on track, by making the most of the data collected by your BT-Q1000
        and overlaying it over the video with TrackVision.<br />
        <br />
        <br />
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        <h2>
            <span style="font-family: Verdana">
        HOW</span></h2>
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        <span style="font-family: Verdana">
        You'll need at least:<br />
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        - A computer with Windows 2000, XP or Vista and the </span><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en">
                <span style="font-family: Verdana">
            .NET Framework 2.0</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana">
                    installed (you can make sure you have MovieMaker installed
        too, it already comes with Windows XP and Vista)<br />
        - Camcorder or "</span><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=bullet+camera&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GGLJ"><span
                        style="font-family: Verdana">bullet
            camera</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana">" with separate video recorder (MiniDV or solid state recording media
        is preferred, since these withstand shakes and vibration better than other recording
        methods)<br />
        - </span><a href="http://www.qstarz.com/Products/GPS%20Products/BT-Q1000.html"><span
                                style="font-family: Verdana">QStarz BT-Q1000
            GPS<br />
                            </span>
        </a><span style="font-family: Verdana">- </span><a href="http://www.trackvision.net">
                                <span style="font-family: Verdana">TrackVision</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana">
                                    1.2 software<br />
        - </span><a href="http://www.performancetotal.com/Pandora/Pandora.zip"><span style="font-family: Verdana">
                                        Pandora software</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana">
        for file conversion from BT-Q1000 CSV to TrackVision<br />
        <br />
        You'll use the GPS to record the GPS data, Pandora to convert it to a TrackVision
        readable format, you'll imprt the video using MovieMaker or some other software,
        and then TrackVision to overlay the GPS data onto the video.<br />
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                                        </span>
        <h2>
            <span style="font-family: Verdana">BEFORE</span></h2>
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        <span style="font-family: Verdana">1) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana">Installing and configuring the QStarz BT-Q1000 drivers and software on your computer<br />
        <br />
        1.1) Download the </span><a href="http://www.qstarz.com/download.htm"><span style="font-family: Verdana">
                BT-Q1000 Windows driver and the utility software</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana">
                    (TravelRecorder) to be able to change the GPS unit settings and
        retrieve the positions data.<br />
        1.2) Install the USB driver for the BT-Q1000, and then the utility TravelRecorder
        software. Test
        everything and <span style="text-decoration: underline">check what COM port the USB
            connection for the GPS is using</span> (look in Windows's Device Manager)<br />
        1.3) Download </span><a href="http://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/GPS/MiniGPS_1.32.zip">
                        <span style="font-family: Verdana">MiniGPS
            1.32</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana">
                            which allows you to easily change the update rate of the BT-Q1000 to
        5Hz from the factory default of 1Hz.<br />
        1.4) Run MiniGPS 1.32, connect it to the COM port used by the GPS, and change the
        update rate to 5Hz:<br />
        <br />
        <br />
        <img src="images/changeUpdateRate.jpg" /><br />
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        1.5) Turn the GPS unit on to LOG mode, <span style="text-decoration: underline">connect
            it by USB cable to the computer</span>, run the QStarz TravelRecorder software,
        and set the data recording options in TravelRecorder as shown
        below:<br />
        <br />
        <img src="images/logFormat.jpg" /><br />
        <br />
        <br />
        <img src="images/autoLogOptions.jpg" /><br />
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        1.6) Start the process of positions logging by clicking the START button in the
        "Data Log List" tab screen:<br />
        <br />
        <br />
        <img src="images/startLogging.jpg" /><br />
        <br />
                1.7) Go out and record all the video and GPS data you want !!! :-)<br />
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            <span style="font-family: Verdana">AFTER</span></h2>
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        2) Process the data and video !<br />
        <br />
        2.1) Turn the GPS unit on to LOG mode, <span style="text-decoration: underline">connect
            it by USB cable to the computer</span>, run the QStarz TravelRecorder software,
        and download the data from the GPS unit to the software.
        <br />
        2.2) Save the downloaded data as CSV to a folder in your computer.<br />
        2.3) Start the Pandora conversion software, and select the BT-Q1000 reader plugin:<br />
        <br />
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        <img src="images/pandora_step1.jpg" />
        <br />
        <br />
        2.4) Set the importer settings. You can filter the data to be read by date and time,
        or by POI (see Tips section at the end of this document):<br />
        <br />
        <img src="images/pandora_step2.jpg" />
        <br />
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        2.5) Select The TrackVision writer plug-in and export the processed data to a folder in your computer:<br />
        <br />
        <img src="images/pandora_step3.jpg" />
        <br />
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	    2.6) Open TrackVision, select the "<span style="font-size: 9pt">Race Technology Analysis
                version 4KPH</span>" or "<span style="font-size: 9pt">Race Technology Analysis version
                    4MPH</span>" logger (a specific properties file for BT-Q1000 will be made as soon as I have some more free-time) and import the data into TrackVision.
	    <br />
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        <h2>
            <span style="font-family: Verdana">TIPS</span></h2>
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        <span style="font-family: Verdana"><strong>Synchronizing</strong>:
            <br />
            <br />
            The BT-Q1000 has a button on it, which allows the recorder to immediately record
            the current position, regardless of the auto log options. But the good thing is,
            it also records that the recorded position was obtained by the press of the button
            and not automatically (for that we need the checkbox on the Method -&gt; RCR checkbox
            in the Log Settings - see step 1.5).<br />
            <br />
            So, we can use that to help us synchronize the video with the GPS data. How ? Just
            try this:<br />
            1) Turn the GPS unit on and start the video recording.
            <br />
            2) Right before you start a session or race or whatever, raise your hand over the
            camera lens or do something that will be seen in the video, and <span style="text-decoration: underline">
                <strong>AT THE SAME TIME</strong></span>, press the POI button on the BT-Q1000
            once. Do that everytime you start a new session/race/whatever.
            <br />
            3) When importing that GPS session data into Pandora software, select the "Read
            data between POI" and select the POI indexes between which there is the data for
            the video you will be processing next:<br />
            <br />
        <br />
        <img src="images/poiFilter.jpg" />
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            This way, only the data between the 2nd and 3rd press of the POI button will be
            read from the data file, and exported !!!<br />
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            4) Export the data to TrackVision readable format in Pandora as usual. The difference
            is that you now know that the GPS data starts exactly when in the video file there
            is the hand gesture for that session !!!<br />
            <br />
            This also allows you to record many sessions on different days, video tapes, etc...
            and you will always be able to separate them when exporting to TrackVision ! :-)<br />
            <br />
            ENJOY !!!!<br />
            <br />
            Please report any bugs or other feedback <a href="http://www.trackvision.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=358">
                here</a>.<br />
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